Our core competency is performing residential and commercial real estate appraisals. This has been our trick for nearly four generations. Historically, the real estate appraisal business has been a very durable industry considering the demand for our services run with certain marketplace inevitabilities that have provided a steady flow of business, such as at times of death, taxes and property transactions.

However, the way we perform real estate appraisals has changed several times in the last twenty years as a result of shifts in banking policy, legal regulations and new technology. I’ll focus mostly on technology, as that is the one issue I can influence and manage the most.

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